A Sense of Story (1971)

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This short, untitled reflection on Sutcliff's career to date is from A Sense of Story: Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children by John Rowe Townsend, which you can read here on Internet Archive. The book consists mainly of his critical essays, but each is followed by a note from the author in question, and a bibliography. (A word of caution about the bibliography: "The Making of an Outlaw" listed as a short story is actually the excerpted first chapter of the novel The Chronicles of Robin Hood.)

Friends, I am Done posting Sutcliff's essays and interviews (kindly overlook the shambles of my chronological ordering. I kept finding more.) In a day or two I'll post a roundup of the links. But stay tuned: the last thing I'll post is Sutcliff's 1984 short story, "The Hundredth Feather".

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